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Meta Partners with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to Build XR Tech for American Soldiers

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Chris McKay• May 29, 2025 • 4 min read

Meta and Anduril announced a partnership to develop military AR/VR systems, marking Palmer Luckey's return to working with his former company after a dramatic 2017 exit.

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Meta AI Hits 1 Billion Users— Now Comes the Tricky Monetization Part

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Chris McKay• May 28, 2025 • 2 min read

Meta AI doubled its user base to 1 billion monthly active users in less than a year, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg says monetizing the AI assistant is the next major hurdle.

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Meta Splits AI Division to Speed Up Product Rollouts Amid Talent Exodus

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Chris McKay• May 26, 2025 • 3 min read

Meta is restructuring its AI division into two teams to accelerate development amid fierce competition, but faces a massive talent exodus with 11 of 14 original Llama researchers having left the company.

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Meta Launches Standalone Meta AI App to Rival ChatGPT

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Chris McKay• April 29, 2025 • 3 min read

The new Llama 4–powered assistant brings voice-first interaction and personalized context across Meta’s platforms.

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Meta Launches Llama 4: Multimodal, Massive, and Made for Everyone

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Chris McKay• April 5, 2025 • 3 min read

Meta has released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, two open-weight AI models designed for multimodal reasoning, with Maverick outperforming GPT-4o and Scout offering a record-breaking 10M token context window.

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Joelle Pineau, Head of Meta's AI Research, Announces Departure

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Chris McKay• April 1, 2025 • 2 min read

Meta's AI ambitions face new uncertainty with the announcement that Joelle Pineau, Vice President of AI Research and head of FAIR, will leave the company in May after two pivotal years overseeing critical advancements.

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Meta's AI Assistant Expands to 41 European Countries with Limited Capabilities

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Chris McKay• March 20, 2025 • 2 min read

Meta has begun rolling out its AI assistant across 41 European countries, though with significantly fewer features than its US counterpart.

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Meta’s Llama AI Model Hits 1 Billion Downloads

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Chris McKay• March 18, 2025 • 2 min read

Meta’s Llama AI model has surpassed 1 billion downloads, reflecting its widespread adoption across research, development, and commercial applications, despite ongoing challenges in regulation, licensing, and competition.

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Meta Announces LlamaCon, Its First Developer Conference for AI

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Chris McKay• February 18, 2025 • 2 min read

Meta has announced LlamaCon, its first-ever developer conference focused on generative AI, set for April 29, 2025, highlighting its commitment to open-source AI and the Llama model ecosystem.

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Meta AI Rolls Out New Memory and Personalization Features

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Chris McKay• January 27, 2025 • 2 min read

The assistant can now retain information shared during individual chats, such as dietary preferences or hobbies, to provide more relevant future responses.

Meta AI Infrastructure

Meta to Invest Up to $65 Billion in AI Infrastructure in 2025

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Chris McKay• January 24, 2025 • 2 min read

This investment marks a substantial increase from Meta's previous spending and signals the company's aggressive push to establish itself as a leading force in AI development.

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Get Live AI, Translations, and Shazam

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Chris McKay• December 16, 2024 • 2 min read

The new features expand the utility of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, offering hands-free tools that feel genuinely useful for everyday tasks.

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Meta Asks California AG to Halt OpenAI’s For-Profit Shift

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Chris McKay• December 13, 2024 • 4 min read

In a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Meta argues that OpenAI’s shift could distort market dynamics and misuse charitable assets for private gain.

Meta Open Source

Meta Releases Video Seal, an Open Source Watermarking Tool for AI Video

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Chris McKay• December 12, 2024 • 2 min read

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, robust watermarking solutions like Video Seal will play a crucial role in content verification and digital rights management.

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Meta Wraps Up 2024 with the Release of Llama 3.3

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Chris McKay• December 6, 2024 • 2 min read

This new model is more efficient, cost-effective, and accessible for developers seeking high-quality text-based AI solutions.

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Meta Looks to Nuclear Power for Future AI Data Centers, Seeks Up to 4GW by 2030s

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Chris McKay• December 3, 2024 • 2 min read

The company has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to find partners capable of managing every stage of nuclear development—from finding sites to construction and operation.

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Meta Brings in Clara Shih to Lead Business AI Group

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Chris McKay• November 19, 2024 • 1 min read

Shih's background aligns well with Meta's ambitions. She was instrumental in building Salesforce's generative AI tools from prototype to fully launched product, and her experience spans both enterprise AI and social media.

Scale Meta Military & Defense

Scale AI and Meta Introduce Defense Llama: A Custom AI Model for U.S. National Security

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Chris McKay• November 5, 2024 • 2 min read

Defense Llama is only available in controlled U.S. government environments through Scale Donovan. The model assists with critical tasks including military operations planning, threat assessment, and response strategy development.

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Amazon and Meta's Nuclear Energy Dreams for Data Centers Hit Regulatory Roadblocks

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Chris McKay• November 4, 2024 • 3 min read

While Amazon's nuclear power ambitions were blocked by federal regulators concerned about grid reliability and consumer costs, Meta's plans were thwarted by environmental hurdles, including the discovery of a protected bee species on their proposed data center site.

Meta Military & Defense

Meta Opens Llama AI Model to US Military, Defense Contractors

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Chris McKay• November 4, 2024 • 2 min read

The partnership includes major players in the defense and technology sectors, with companies like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and Microsoft joining forces to implement Llama in national security applications.

Meta Robotics

Meta is Developing a Robot Hand That Can Touch and Feel

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Chris McKay• October 31, 2024 • 4 min read

The company has introduced a range of technologies designed to elevate robotic dexterity and touch perception, including Meta Sparsh, Meta Digit 360, and Meta Digit Plexus platforms.

Meta Media & Entertainment

Meta Partners with Reuters to Bring Real-Time News to Its AI Chatbot

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Chris McKay• October 25, 2024 • 1 min read

Starting Friday, you'll see Reuters-sourced responses when asking Meta AI about current events across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

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Meta's New Quantized AI Models Are Half the Size and Run Twice as Fast

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Chris McKay• October 24, 2024 • 2 min read

The smaller 1-billion and 3-billion parameter models can now work on many popular mobile devices

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Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community

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Chris McKay• October 18, 2024 • 2 min read

The new releases offer advanced capabilities in object segmentation, speech integration, cryptographic security, and material discovery, inviting researchers to push the boundaries of AI development.

Meta Media & Entertainment

Meta Unveils Movie Gen: AI-Powered Video Creation and Editing Suite

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Chris McKay• October 4, 2024 • 3 min read

You can type a description—such as "a day at the beach with dolphins jumping in the background"—and the model creates a 16-second video clip, complete with plausible object interactions, motion, and camera dynamics.